Voice actor Roger Craig Smith (below) says the folks behind the 'Avengers Assemble' cartoon take great pains to ensure that Captain America is the square-jawed boy scout generations have come to know and love.
PUBLIC awareness of Captain America has skyrocketed faster than a speeding bullet in recent years thanks to the success of the live-action films Marvel’s The Avengers and Captain America: The First Avenger. As the voice behind Steve Rogers in Disney XD’s Avengers Assemble cartoon, Roger Craig Smith was faced with a conundrum – should he stick to what the live-action Cap sounds like, or put his own spin on the character?
“We are very conscious of the fact that there is an audience out there that is very aware of the popularity of the live-action films. But we are not trying to emulate or mimic them in any way,” he said in a phone interview from the United States.
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